Dragons Quotes
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"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."
"Never laugh at live dragons."
"I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?"
"Saphira waved her tail, the tip whistling loudly. "I'm not asking you to. However, if we attack first, we may gain the advantage.""Have you gone crazy? They'll..."Eragon's voice trailed off as he thought about it. "They won't be able to do a thing.""Exactly,"said Saphira. "We can inflict lots of damage from a safe height.""Let's drop rocks on them!"
"Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back."
"It is because of its emptiness that the cup is useful."
"Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night."
"My task is set before me, girl My mission clear and true There’ll be black knights and dragons, girl But I will always come for you…"
"Everything is a sin. It all depends on which person you happen to offend with your free will."
"A life fueled by passions is like riding on the back of a dragon."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"Saphira waved her tail, the tip whistling loudly. "I'm not asking you to. However, if we attack first, we may gain the advantage." "Have you gone crazy? They'll..." Eragon's voice trailed off as he thought about it. "They won't be able to do a thing." "Exactly," said Saphira. "We can inflict lots of damage from a safe height." "Let's drop rocks on them!"
"Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do we not now know that there are hundreds of them found fossil up and down the world? People call them Pterodactyles: but that is only because they are ashamed to call them flying dragons, after denying so long that flying dragons could exist."
"Hurricanes couldn’t remove you from my mind. You’re my world and I’m incapable of not loving you."
"Breathing in the scent of his hair, I realized I'd needed him my whole life, before we even met. First, his music and the way he taught me through books and recordings. Then, he saved my life and refused to abandon me no matter how much I deserved it."
"Sad really.” Avenant mused. “Trevelyan was part of a majestic race. Doomed and enslaved by lesser beings, but majestic, none the less.” His gaze swept over the rest of the group with a sigh. “I know the feeling well."
"If I had known how good cooked meat tastes, I would have breathed my fire on all those pigs before I ate them."
"She had no time for sleep, with the weight of the world upon her shoulders. And she feared to dream. Sleep is a little death, dreams the whisperings of the Other, who would drag us all into his eternal night."
"Fairytales by nature only talk about the victors. The survivors. Nobody speaks about what happens to those who failed, except in the abstract: as cautionary tales to guide others onto the path to success. How many brave knights fell to the dragon before he was slayed by the noble prince? How many children burned to a crisp and eaten before the wicked witch received her due? These stories are lost, but the lesson behind them is not: it is not enough to be merely pure and good."
"Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain;If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!"
"The townspeople took the prince for deadWhen he never returned with the dragon’s headWhen with her, he stayedShe thought he’d be too afraidBut he loved her too much instead."
"I loved getting my M. B. A., and I really enjoyed being an accountant and financial analyst before I quit my day job twenty-five years ago to write full time. I just liked writing more…plus, I knew even then that as a full-time writer, I'd get plenty of chances to do business-type stuff, while as an accountant, I probably wouldn't get a lot of opportunities to write about dragons."
"Ah, I do so love this charmingly rustic, elvin kingdom!-Baozhai"
"She trusted him. Her heart knew him.And her body wanted him."
"She slid her fingers into his thick hair and melted while he kissed her as if there were no tomorrow. He tempted, he seduced, he enticed.And she willingly followed."
"Don't try to tell me it's because I'm scared, because the truth is the only time I'm not terrified is when I'm with you."
"Sammi watched him walk toward her.He walked like a predator, a conqueror. A king who ruled and commanded all. He was sex and sin, decadence and sensuality.He was, simply put, spectacular."
"Are ya glad to see me, or is that a roll of poker chips in your pants?"
"The morning was bright and propitious. Before their departure, mass had been said in the chapel, and the protection of St. Ignatius invoked against all contingent evils, but especially against bears, which, like the fiery dragons of old, seemed to cherish unconquerable hostility to the Holy Church. ("The Legend Of Monte Del Diablo")."
"I know everything, you see,' the old voice wheedled. 'The beginning, the present, the end. Everything. You now, you see the past and the present, like other low creatures: no higher faculties than memory and perception. But dragons, my boy, have a whole different kind of mind.' He stretched his mouth in a kind of smile, no trace of pleasure in it. 'We are from the mountaintop: all time, all space. We see in one instant the passionate vision and the blowout."
"If you see the dragon fly,best you drink the flagon dry.”—Zarost"
"Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck."Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck."
"Books are the only things worth stealing."
Sully Tarnish, The Dragon and the Apprentice: A Wizard's Wager
"Dragons are a manifestation of things we fear. More often than not, those fears prove to be just as daunting and just as imaginary."
"Did you know you could destroy dragons? Dragons are not actually real, they just roar to scare you away from your goals. In fact they are afraid of determined heroes, they take flight at their approach"
"If I could have one friend,just one in all the world,I know that I would not seek outa boy or pretty girl.The friend I’d dare to chooseto stand by me each daywould be a dragon fierce enoughto scare the world away."
"My nightly craft is winged in white, a dragon of night dark sea.Swift born, dream bound and rudderless, her captain and crew are me.We've sailed a hundred sleeping tides where no seaman's ever beenAnd only my white-winged craft and I know the wonders we have seen."
"When it comes to fighting for your dreams, be a dragon. Breathe fire."
"Depriving someone of their freedom is the most despicable act imaginable. Anyone guilty of it should be BURIED so they can rot and be reincarnated as roses."
"And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history?”“If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons."
"This may be my only chance to see humans before these two are made into fertilizer for Moonwind's rosebushes."
"Elsie eyed him puzzledly, and then offered, "Would you like to see my plate?"
"Her stories were made of badass women teasing monsters and running wild with dragons."
"The color has faded out of the sky. It is grey, becoming darker as the world turns herself round a little more. The clouds are long and black and ragged, like the wings of stormbattered dragons."
"Toads are to dragons what carrots are to unicorns."
"He had only heard of dragons, and although he had never seen one, he was sure they existed."
"There wasn't a colloquial phrase, or curse, that went something like, "May your day be full of angry dragons" or, "May every dragon you meet today be pissed off." But, there should have been."
"I've stolen books. They're the only thing worth taking that don't belong to you."
Sully Tarnish, The Dragon and the Apprentice: A Wizard's Wager
"The best thought any writer ever come up with is of having a world with Dragons."
"When a Dragon, an Elf, and a Human walk into a bar, the Human is always going to be the punch line."
"When I look at my bookcase and see the books upon the shelves, I think to myself, There is a God."
Sully Tarnish, The Dragon and the Apprentice: A Wizard's Wager
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